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A votive statue of Chai-Hapi (a thousand of bread, a thousand of beer, a thousand of all good things to him!) excavated from the remains of Roman Vienna. Carved from gneis. In the style of late 19th Dynasty Heliopolis. Wien, Kunsthistorisches Musem, Ägyptische-Orientalische Sammlung, Inv. Nr. Äs 64. Photographed on special exhibition at Schloss Ambras by Sean Manning.

When Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, the excavators found a copper trumpet and a silver trumpet. The British looked at them and thought a bit and decided that the obvious thing to do was to play them for the BBC. The recording is now available on YouTube (c/o Bronze Age Centre)

Andreea Dee enjoyed the Real Fighting Stuff conference in Glasgow on European weapons and martial arts last March (link).

This post is a bit of a stir-fry, so I thought I should end with something on food. Christian Eckert was the martial arts and training expert for a project to reconstruct the training and diet of Roman gladiators at a German university. He has published part of his work in a book, Gladiatoren Kochbuch (Neumann-Neudamm Melsungen, 2014). I noticed a copy on our library shelves, but my readers might have to try Bookfinder or the Warrior Woman of the Internet.

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Thanks a lot for post and links! I had no idea about sound of Tutankhamun trumpets, and I even visited a museal exhibition about his tomb few years ago! This German girl makes interesting reenaction of medieval fightbooks, check her out. https://www.youtube.com/user/juliathut/videos